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Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-02 18:13:11

Picking up OscarBean95's idea for a thread (The Shadow art competition - closed for not being a competition and not started with a contribution by OP).

Since I made a pix for that thread, I really had no choice but to start a new thread (trying to stay within forum rules and accepting advice on a broader scope for the thread), so ...

here is my take on the Shadow (and side kick Margo Lane)

Other well known pulp heroes would be Doc Savage, Conan, Tarzan, Zorro and the Green Hornet.

For each that is remembered, there are dozens very few people still remember, but that are well worth celebrating.

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-05 05:52:50

Another pulp Hero, still around

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-05 11:54:05

At 7/5/23 05:52 AM, PerKGrok wrote:Another pulp Hero, still around

https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/perkgrok/tarzan-of-the-apes

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-10 10:43:29

This time going for a less known pulp character

From a 1920's story "The masked Woman" by Johnston McCulley (creator of Zorro)

a masked avenger type of story

from left to right

Professor James Xenophon Salwick

Dorcas (or Doris) Darcan as herself

Doris (or Dorcas) Darcan as Mme Madcap, masked avenger

Sambo, strongman

"Red" Riley, gangster

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-12 08:33:06 (edited 2023-07-12 08:36:31)

The Black Bat - pulp hero contemporary with early Batman.

Anyone else have some pulp or golden age comics characters to post, feel free to do so. 🙂

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-17 07:22:30

You might think that this is a Catwoman knockoff, but Miss Fury is from the 40's and catwoman didn't look similar to this until in the 60's.

Your take on pulp and golden age characters are welcome in this thread.

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-17 12:36:48

Wow! I don’t know a lot about classic comics, but this is a really interesting thread! I hope more people will come on board!

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-19 13:52:14

Based on the 1940:s movie serials.

In this version Kato (the Green Hornet's sidekick) was played by Keye Luke, who easily was as interesting actor as was Bruce Lee, who played the role in the 60's.

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-23 03:14:05 (edited 2023-07-23 03:14:44)

Pat Savage is the younger cousin of pulp hero Doc Savage (Man of Bronze). From the 30's.

Carries a Colt's 1873 Model P (Colt Frontier). she is an accomplished marksman, pilot, and hand-to-hand combatant and shares her cousin's love of adventure.

Feel free to share your art of pulp and golden age characters.

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-25 13:24:38

I feel bad for you that your thread isn’t getting much traction, so I did the closest thing I could think of and doodled a parody character modeled on those golden age comic heroes. This is the Huntsman from the show Freakazoid. (Partly drawn without a reference because I didn’t have internet when I started.)

(Reference:)

The running joke about him is that every time he shows up ready to fight crime, no crime is happening whatsoever, and he gets increasingly frustrated and depressed about it. His episodes are really short because of that plot, I’d definitely recommend watching a couple.

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-26 03:14:08

At 7/25/23 01:24 PM, Thetageist wrote:I feel bad for you that your thread isn’t getting much traction, so I did the closest thing I could think of and doodled a parody character modeled on those golden age comic heroes. This is the Huntsman from the show Freakazoid. (Partly drawn without a reference because I didn’t have internet when I started.)

(Reference:)

The running joke about him is that every time he shows up ready to fight crime, no crime is happening whatsoever, and he gets increasingly frustrated and depressed about it. His episodes are really short because of that plot, I’d definitely recommend watching a couple.

Thanks for your input.

I guess the pulp/golden age area is not as popular here as I would have thought ... or maybe just mostly forgotten.

The Huntsman looks like the character draws a lot from one of the earliest archer superheroes, the Green Arrow, ( who is still around, but looks a bit different today ).

Here we have the Green Arrow in the 1940s version with his sidekick of that time, Speedy.

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-26 03:54:31

At 7/26/23 03:14 AM, PerKGrok wrote:Thanks for your input.
I guess the pulp/golden age area is not as popular here as I would have thought ... or maybe just mostly forgotten.

I would doodle something, but I do not know what is golden age or pulp hero, as I was born and raised in "russki mir" (read: occupied land, where all west was evil and even speaking my own language was shunned) and I am afraid if I'd draw some "comic character" it would be off-topic.

Maybe there are others like me, who are not very wise about the subject of golden era nor pulp heroism. :(

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-26 05:18:08

At 7/26/23 03:54 AM, Tenebrare wrote:
At 7/26/23 03:14 AM, PerKGrok wrote:Thanks for your input.
I guess the pulp/golden age area is not as popular here as I would have thought ... or maybe just mostly forgotten.

I would doodle something, but I do not know what is golden age or pulp hero, as I was born and raised in "russki mir" (read: occupied land, where all west was evil and even speaking my own language was shunned) and I am afraid if I'd draw some "comic character" it would be off-topic.

Maybe there are others like me, who are not very wise about the subject of golden era nor pulp heroism. :(

Ah well, pulp refers to a low quality paper, that inexpensive fiction magazines where printed on in about the first half of the 1900s (the movie title Pulp Fiction refers to this kind of literature). The golden age of comics is between 1938-1956. And we are mainly talking of USA, (but not exclusively.)

There is a lot of crossover from pulp to comics and crossovers to radio shows and to movie serials.

Pulp covered a number of different genres such as adventure, detective, crime, horror, weird, humor, fantasy, SF, romance, spicy, wild West and so on.

Superman is a golden age superhero, as is Batman and a number of his villains, such as the Joker. Sherlock Holmes might be on the early edge of what would be pulp, but I would accept it. So you have already touched on characters that belong to the area.

Lot of information easily accessible on the internet if you want to look into characters of this area.

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-26 07:07:58

At 7/26/23 05:18 AM, PerKGrok wrote:Superman is a golden age superhero, as is Batman and a number of his villains, such as the Joker. Sherlock Holmes might be on the early edge of what would be pulp, but I would accept it. So you have already touched on characters that belong to the area.

Well I have drawn a superman (crossover tho - my fave character from 1980s movies as superman) and a joker and some of Harley, but as someone, who never read american comics, I am not sure how right I am about the timelines or character visuals to fit the theme. Ah yes, I have somewhere a catwoman doodle too. if those fit the bill I could share those, and maybe some other users get inspired to add theirs as well.

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-26 08:32:13

At 7/26/23 07:07 AM, Tenebrare wrote:
At 7/26/23 05:18 AM, PerKGrok wrote:Superman is a golden age superhero, as is Batman and a number of his villains, such as the Joker. Sherlock Holmes might be on the early edge of what would be pulp, but I would accept it. So you have already touched on characters that belong to the area.

Well I have drawn a superman (crossover tho - my fave character from 1980s movies as superman) and a joker and some of Harley, but as someone, who never read american comics, I am not sure how right I am about the timelines or character visuals to fit the theme. Ah yes, I have somewhere a catwoman doodle too. if those fit the bill I could share those, and maybe some other users get inspired to add theirs as well.

Sure, go for it. No big thing if something gets out of the timeline.

(ps. Harley Quinn is a lovely character but she is from the 1990s and started in an animated cartoon before getting incorperated in the comics.)

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-26 11:28:13

At 7/26/23 08:32 AM, PerKGrok wrote:(ps. Harley Quinn is a lovely character but she is from the 1990s and started in an animated cartoon before getting incorperated in the comics.)

I wouldn't know - hehee. I just saw a cool image of her and I liked her appearance and I could have sworn that with such outfit she was older than 1990s. I learn new things every day!

I realized I haven't glazed my other doodles, and since I am running a video render now for next 9 hours I cannot run glaze (as my GPU is working double time) so Catwoman and others have to wait. Sorry for the out-of-era-heroine that Harley is.

I do not know from what era this looks of Joker was, but as like with Harley I just saw an image of him in this outfit and green hair and I wanted to do an image of him.

And as for superman-... well not really that's just Cenobite of Steel, known as Superpin, but it wouldn't be me if I'd post artwork and not include him somehow. Take this one with tongue on cheek :) :

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-26 15:50:51

At 7/26/23 11:28 AM, Tenebrare wrote:
At 7/26/23 08:32 AM, PerKGrok wrote:(ps. Harley Quinn is a lovely character but she is from the 1990s and started in an animated cartoon before getting incorperated in the comics.)

I wouldn't know - hehee. I just saw a cool image of her and I liked her appearance and I could have sworn that with such outfit she was older than 1990s. I learn new things every day!

I realized I haven't glazed my other doodles, and since I am running a video render now for next 9 hours I cannot run glaze (as my GPU is working double time) so Catwoman and others have to wait. Sorry for the out-of-era-heroine that Harley is.

I do not know from what era this looks of Joker was, but as like with Harley I just saw an image of him in this outfit and green hair and I wanted to do an image of him.

https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/tenebrare/joker

And as for superman-... well not really that's just Cenobite of Steel, known as Superpin, but it wouldn't be me if I'd post artwork and not include him somehow. Take this one with tongue on cheek :) :
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/tenebrare/superpin-the-cenobite-of-steel

Very nice versions.

The Joker and Superman costumes are golden age OK.

As for Harley Quinn, while she is not golden age her look would have fitted in.

While there was no Harley Quinn, there was a Harlequin, that was first a villain fighting the Green Lantern (the original one, not the silver age one) and later turned to the good side and eventually married the Green Lantern.

Here a quick drawing of Harlequin in a similar pose.

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-26 16:10:57 (edited 2023-07-26 16:11:28)

At 7/26/23 03:50 PM, PerKGrok wrote:
At 7/26/23 11:28 AM, Tenebrare wrote:
At 7/26/23 08:32 AM, PerKGrok wrote:(ps. Harley Quinn is a lovely character but she is from the 1990s and started in an animated cartoon before getting incorperated in the comics.)

I wouldn't know - hehee. I just saw a cool image of her and I liked her appearance and I could have sworn that with such outfit she was older than 1990s. I learn new things every day!

I realized I haven't glazed my other doodles, and since I am running a video render now for next 9 hours I cannot run glaze (as my GPU is working double time) so Catwoman and others have to wait. Sorry for the out-of-era-heroine that Harley is.

I do not know from what era this looks of Joker was, but as like with Harley I just saw an image of him in this outfit and green hair and I wanted to do an image of him.

https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/tenebrare/joker

And as for superman-... well not really that's just Cenobite of Steel, known as Superpin, but it wouldn't be me if I'd post artwork and not include him somehow. Take this one with tongue on cheek :) :
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/tenebrare/superpin-the-cenobite-of-steel

Very nice versions.

The Joker and Superman costumes are golden age OK.

As for Harley Quinn, while she is not golden age her look would have fitted in.

While there was no Harley Quinn, there was a Harlequin, that was first a villain fighting the Green Lantern (the original one, not the silver age one) and later turned to the good side and eventually married the Green Lantern.

Here a quick drawing of Harlequin in a similar pose.

I like that the clown motif stayed in the DC universe. Would be fun to see Green’s wife’s thoughts on Harley and/or the Joker.

don’t say clussy don’t say clussy don’t say clussy

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-27 02:02:25

At 7/26/23 04:10 PM, Thetageist wrote:
At 7/26/23 03:50 PM, PerKGrok wrote:
At 7/26/23 11:28 AM, Tenebrare wrote:
At 7/26/23 08:32 AM, PerKGrok wrote:
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Here a quick drawing of Harlequin in a similar pose.

I like that the clown motif stayed in the DC universe. Would be fun to see Green’s wife’s thoughts on Harley and/or the Joker.

As far as I know that has not been documented in any comic, so feel free to make up your own version. 🤡

don’t say clussy don’t say clussy don’t say clussy

I wouldn't dream of saying that. 😲

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-27 09:16:41

Tangential question: You got any OCs inspired by these classic comic characters? Or do you want to design one?

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-27 12:54:47

At 7/27/23 09:16 AM, Thetageist wrote:Tangential question: You got any OCs inspired by these classic comic characters? Or do you want to design one?

Not directly. My aviatrix extraordinaire, Jacqueline White, is possibly the closets thing;

Inspired partly by the fictional character Biggles, which would fall within Pulp, partly by Pearl White, silent movie actress, from (among other things) the 'Perils of Pauline' movies, in which she preformed her own stunts, and partly from a number of other sources. The name Jacqueline comes from two pionair female pilots, Jacqueline Cochran and Jacqueline Auriol.

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-27 15:04:57

At 7/27/23 12:54 PM, PerKGrok wrote:
At 7/27/23 09:16 AM, Thetageist wrote:Tangential question: You got any OCs inspired by these classic comic characters? Or do you want to design one?

Not directly. My aviatrix extraordinaire, Jacqueline White, is possibly the closets thing;

Inspired partly by the fictional character Biggles, which would fall within Pulp, partly by Pearl White, silent movie actress, from (among other things) the 'Perils of Pauline' movies, in which she preformed her own stunts, and partly from a number of other sources. The name Jacqueline comes from two pionair female pilots, Jacqueline Cochran and Jacqueline Auriol.

Close enough for me! There’s a very loosely superhero themed card game collab I’m in that I’m always looking to recruit for. Details are in the official @strongstead-hills profile if you’re interested!

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-07-28 03:12:09

At 7/27/23 03:04 PM, Thetageist wrote:
At 7/27/23 12:54 PM, PerKGrok wrote:
At 7/27/23 09:16 AM, Thetageist wrote:Tangential question: You got any OCs inspired by these classic comic characters? Or do you want to design one?

Not directly. My aviatrix extraordinaire, Jacqueline White, is possibly the closets thing;

Inspired partly by the fictional character Biggles, which would fall within Pulp, partly by Pearl White, silent movie actress, from (among other things) the 'Perils of Pauline' movies, in which she preformed her own stunts, and partly from a number of other sources. The name Jacqueline comes from two pionair female pilots, Jacqueline Cochran and Jacqueline Auriol.

Close enough for me! There’s a very loosely superhero themed card game collab I’m in that I’m always looking to recruit for. Details are in the official @strongstead-hills profile if you’re interested!

Of course I could draw a superhero card for you. I don't do discord however. Will not touch it. You could DM me with whatever information I would need, such as dimensions of the card.

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-08-03 16:55:57

An attempt at making a pulp magazine type of cover. It is not related to any specific character.

Would this cover make you pick up the magazine and consider buying it, then it is a success.

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-08-05 02:44:27

Captain Future, pulp magazine hero, not to be mistaken for Captain Future, gold age comic book hero.

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-08-05 10:04:18

At 8/5/23 02:44 AM, PerKGrok wrote:https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/perkgrok/captain-future-pulp-hero

Captain Future, pulp magazine hero, not to be mistaken for Captain Future, gold age comic book hero.

Since this thread is dedicated to both, I assume the other Captain Future is also going to show up here eventually.

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Response to Activity: Draw a golden age or pulp hero 2023-08-05 10:29:45

At 8/5/23 10:04 AM, Thetageist wrote:
At 8/5/23 02:44 AM, PerKGrok wrote:https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/perkgrok/captain-future-pulp-hero

Captain Future, pulp magazine hero, not to be mistaken for Captain Future, gold age comic book hero.

Since this thread is dedicated to both, I assume the other Captain Future is also going to show up here eventually.

Maybe 😏

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